How to be part of Unsilent Night in your city

by Actual News Geezer | December 8, 2006 at 12:25 pm

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Phil Kline has a pretty interesting idea. Phil Kline's 15th annual boombox Christmas parade through NYC streets takes place Dec. 16. There's a set of dates for other cities across North America (see below). NowPublic will capture everything you send in if you follow his crazy instructions exactly. OK, nevermind about the instructions. Just bring your boombox and digital camera. We'll do the rest. See instructions below.

On Saturday, December 16 at 7:00 pm, starting at the arch in Washington Square Park, composer Phil Kline will lead a massive chorus of boomboxes through the streets of Greenwich Village in the 15th annual holiday presentation of UNSILENT NIGHT.

Kline places the different parts of his composition on cassettes, and distributes them to those who show up at Washington Square. At the given signal, participants simultaneously press PLAY. When the cassettes start rolling, "they blossom into a marvelously crafted symphony" (Time Out New York) and the crowd begins to snake eastward, following a pre-determined route until the piece ends in Tompkins Square Park less than an hour and a mile later.

The public is strongly encouraged to bring their own boomboxes, for which Kline will provide tapes.

These instructions can be ignored but you will have more fun if you follow them:

Do everything Kline wants. Take photos, video - and either post them to Flickr or upload them directly to NowPublic.

Tag the photos: unsilent night, nowpublic, and the name of your city.

When it's over come back to see a wild quilt of sound and fury from all participating cities. Here they are with contact information:

December 2: Milledgeville, GA (jwindish@mac.com)

December 8: Baltimore, MD (brian@briansacawa.com)

December 9: Middlesbrough UK (Judith_Croft@middlesbrough.gov.uk)

December 12: Banff (Alberta, Canada) (waltman@mta.ca)

December 16, 7pm: New York, NY (boombox@mindspring.com)

December 16: San Diego, CA (sounds@accretions.com)

December 16: Asheville, NC (jjulien@cenergy.com)

December 16: Sydney, Australia (filmcement@gmail.com)

December 17: Los Angeles, CA (unsilentnightla@gmail.com)

December 18: Philadelphia, PA (www.relache.org)

December 20, Midnight: The Yukon (christine@tarius.ca)

December 21: Santa Barbara, CA (info@iridianarts.com)

December 21: Charleston, SC (nathan@newmusiccollective.org)

December 23: San Francisco, CA (colinb@sonic.net)

December 23: Vancouver, BC (colin@crypticmusic.ca)

Date TBA: Rochester, NY (RadnofskyL@aol.com)